No the title is not a typo, the box really does say “Surveillahce Camera”
Off to a bad start then, this camera offering from TP-Link promises many features: High quality images and video, ‘surveillahce’ software, camera monitoring from smart phones, wireless connection, 2-way audio, dual video streams for long-term recording and local monitoring, 16-camera management, automatic restart on errors…
So an impressive feature list for a camera in this price range. But beyond these claims we have found a couple of issues. Annoyingly, and as is the case with many such cameras, it only works fully in Internet Explorer. Although I should say is supposed to only work fully in Internet Explorer. Weirdly, when the camera is accessed locally all is well, but remote access tirelessly crashes Internet Explorer every time. OK, so we can look in on the camera with a smart phone or other internet browser, but we can’t set up motion detection or some other features.
OK, that’s an irritating bug so we’ll move on and try the software which is “capable” of the same and more than should be possible in Internet Explorer. The installation went smoothly, but immediately I get the feeling the interface is less than brilliant. To start off I still haven’t found a way to move the window around. It is determined to be full screen. This would be ok except I am trying this on a computer with 2 screens. The second screen is just used for a powerpoint presentation and isn’t facing me. So when I open the second half of the program – the recordings and playback bit – and it does the same trick of not being moveable – and resolutely and immovably appears on the second monitor which I cannot readily see – I am not best pleased.
Giving the product a few plus points at this stage – the image quality is very good both for stills and video, and it does work with smartphones. The audio section seems to work well too although has quite a serious flaw. The Camera is wireless so you can have flexibility in placing it, but it does not incorporate a speaker. So where ever you put it (usually in the top corner of a room) you going to have to somehow place speakers near it if you wish to use this feature.
A final nail in the coffin was the scheduling feature in the “surveillahce” software, which does not!.
Hi Bojan
Our experience with Wireless Cameras has been all bad.. We find that though they will work if in the right position, that right position is generally not where you want to put the Camera! If you do succeed in setting the camera up on a wireless network, invariably by the next day the camera has “dropped off” the network.
As a rule the camera will work fine if connected to a network cable, so, being realistic, that’s the simplest and best way to go (even if it means borrowing a drill and going through walls etc.). Cameras that use POE (Power Over Ethernet) are our favourites – they need less holes and less cable in general to be hidden away / secured,- albeit this adds to the cost.
Hello I have mentioned camera The TP-Link TL-SC3130G, happens to me a problem, turn it over and working wi fi after I was turned off and he moved to another location, equally distant from the router as the first then it will not work, then I returned to the original place where she worked, but that did not want to work, not to establish a connection to what the problem is. And when I set very close to the router then establish a connection